Tag: communication
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Beyond Awareness: Exploring Your Autistic Profile and Identity – Part 1
As an autistic person, I have always been aware of my fellow neurokin. More than aware, acutely aware, a magnetic visceral connection pulling me towards my community. Even as a young child at primary school (unaware of my neurotype) my ‘autdar’ (was very strong and accurate), I instinctively felt the need to be near other…
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With bans on phones and social media, we are disarming students who refuse to swallow the bunting.
Blanket phone bans are a failure to do holistic, systems thinking and adopt structural ideology. Those require community conversation. Those require understanding and recognizing ecosystems. Those require thinking in terms of prevention (in social work terms) instead of tier 1 intervention (in RTI terms). Phone bans are bikeshedding. Phone bans are fundamental attribution error. Phone…
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Find Your Voice Self-Advocacy Cards
Find Your Voice is a family-driven initiative created by a team of neurodivergents: Designer Dad Steve, Early Years Educator Mom Tara, and their daughter, Miss A. Based in Melbourne, Australia, our journey began with a need—our daughter often experiences situational mutism, especially in high-stress environments, and we wanted to help her communicate more comfortably.
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This Is Not About Me: The Journey from Patient to Agent and the Fight for Educational Inclusion
What is it like to be autistic and non-speaking in a world that has already made up its mind about you? This Is Not About Me tells the story of Jordyn Zimmerman. Jordyn dreamt of becoming a teacher. She started out eager to learn at school, but she was soon separated from the other children.…
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“Yes, And…” Infodump
These tweets are good advice, especially before infodumping after someone tickles one of your SpIns. Today’s tip for communicating while neurodiverse: no matter how exciting the thoughts you’re having off someone else’s point, make sure to start your reply by acknowledging you saw & understood what they said. It’s amazing how easily you can look…
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Lost In Translation: Ways in Which Neurodivergent and Neurotypical Social Languages Differ
We the neurodivergent are genetically different. We experience the world through a hypersensitive nervous system which informs every aspect of our thinking, our behavior, and our social values. The dominant social group labels our way of being in the world as disordered because they don’t understand us. Even though they don’t understand, the dominant culture…
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Our Communication Stack
With our Element.io, P2, and WordPress communication stack, we cover the three levels, three speeds, and three archetypal spaces of communication, collaboration, and sociality. Contents: Three Levels: Conversation, Discussion, Publication The three levels of communication: Conversation -> Discussion -> Publication An example of the three levels of communication at Automattic Say I have a new…
